Search On In South Sacramento Neighborhood After Shooting Leaves Female Dead

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The latest on a shooting and suspect search in south Sacramento:

5:05 p.m.

Family members arriving at the scene of the crime say that the victim was a 19-year-old mother of a 4-month-old child.

A man who said he is the victim’s brother, Kenneth Ates, spoke to reporters outside of the house she was reportedly shot in earlier Tuesday.

Police are continuing to investigate the incident and talk to family members at the scene. The suspect has still not been located.

Police have not yet released the identity of the victim or the suspect.

1:24 p.m.

Deputies have not been able to find the suspect in the shooting that left a young female dead late Tuesday morning.

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department says they have broken down their perimeter of the area where they were searching for the suspect.

Investigators are continuing to work the case and will continue to try and find the suspect.

The suspect’s name has not been released.

11:15 a.m.

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department says the person hurt in a shooting along Orchard Woods Circle has died.

The victim is a female, deputies say. Deputies responded to the scene just after 9 a.m. and found she had been shot once in the upper body. She was taken to the hospital but was later pronounced dead.

A search is still on for the suspect, described as a black male in his late teens or early 20s. Deputies say he was seen running from the scene with a handgun.

9:39 a.m.

A search is on in a south Sacramento neighborhood after a shooting left at least one person hurt.

The scene is along the 7800 block of Orchard Woods Circle.

According to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, the incident was first reported just after 9 a.m. Deputies have now set up a perimeter in the area and a K9 unit is helping search for the suspect.

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